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The dating of Beowulf [electronic resource] / edited by Colin Chase

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Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo [New York] : Published in association with the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto by University of Toronto Press, [1997]
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1 online resource (ix, 228 pages).
Additional Creators
Chase, Colin, 1935-, University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies, and Canadian Electronic Library (Firm)
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Contents
Editor's preface -- Abbreviations -- The dating of Beowulf -- Opinions on the date of Beowulf, 1815-1980 -- The eleventh-century origin of Beowulf and the Beowulf manuscript -- The Nowell Codex and the poem of Beowulf -- A reconsideration of the language of Beowulf -- Metrical style as evidence for the date of Beowulf -- Hetware and Hugas: datable anachronisms in Beowulf -- Beowulf, the Danish invasions, and royal genealogy -- The audience of Beowulf and the Vikings -- Skaldic verse and the date of Beowulf -- Variation in Beowulf and the Poetic Edda: a chronological experiment -- Saints' lives, royal lives, and the date of Beowulf -- Style as the criterion for dating the composition of Beowulf -- On the date of composition of Beowulf -- The date of Beowulf: some doubts and no conclusions -- Afterword: the uses of uncertainty: on the dating of Beowulf.
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9781442657519 electronic
9780802078797 paper
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Originally published 1981.
Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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